, 1887-12-01
From s.e.5.sz-,ss,s'a Baily.

NJ. Richards of Whaicom was in town
,r-rr5!ay.
Read Mr. Jou,s' advertisement. He
has q fiuc variety OF goods.
: board Of trade meeting viii Proba-
- bly, lie called il feW days.
Tie express Office l. boia-; moved to
T,bOals new building On Union wharf.
Major Hallcr OF Seattle had mess Of
green peas from his garden on Thanks
giving day.
The Parti@,;n and the Nuyget are ex-
!: changing atfectiorate greeting. Now,
Brethren, 5on'r.
fhc Peoples party cast but 363 votes
in King county and hence may fairly bG
sand to have expired.
Among those who went up the Sound
from here yesterday were: Rov. J. n.
Denison. Capt. Tibbals and Capt
Bioudi.
Rev. T. J, Massey Of the Methodist
church IS laying the foundation Of a
church at Synden where Rev. John \.
| Remnant is pastor.
Mr.. Frank Smith has cpelol = tailor
iny and Repairing shop, next door to The
Custom house. He will attend promptly
and carefully to all business i'll his line.
Give him a call.
The Oregonicn is advertising Port
Townsend hy descriptive article, but
as it is written up only for the benefit Of
those OF our business men who sub
scribe for extra copies of the paper It is
necessarily 4 partial showing only.
Eugene City has had ten thou and
dollar fire.
Hon. II. L. Ycsler Of Seattle has re-
turned home from an extended trip east.
The Press of Seattle attributes it's de
feat on Saturday to the temperance ele-
ment. Eh!s is the usual cry.
Fred Grant was defeated fer Sec. Of
State in New York by 1G,77S majority.
tLc Prohibition vote was 42,O5I.
Captain Tarte is quite proud of the
weeks work done by tie steamer Ivan
gel. She made the run from Seattle TO
Noah Bay, aul back la Port Townsend;
then 10 SsmiaEnoO and back to Seattle;
ani from here 10 Chuckauut, on Bel
iingham Bay, and back, with go tons
of stuse. arriving hsre 1T 1 O'Clock Sat-
nrday mornipc--P.-L
The Port Townsend pustofiicc viii be
moved in lew days to one OF Essen heis'
brick building on the sea wall!-ont. The
government authorities had raised
rumpus abuut the postotiice being kept
in wooden bnIldipg liable 90 burn
down-aGd Postma, ter Mcnamara hopes
now to hear less complaint from them.
1T wall be more inc cnIent Ter the bus
mess part of town N the new quarters
than where the Office ROW j., but the SAFE
~ from fire viii be much greater.
Seattle in-L George Venahiu
smith. the business aud iinarc.al mana
ger Of the Puget Sound Co-uperative
Colony, has gone 10 st. PAM un il salary
Cf 81 30 per day aud expenses to lecture
in behalf of the colony. 1t is now stated
that during George Nen1ble's absence
the board of trustees viii! make an at
tempt tu remove him froIa the office he
now holds and elect another man TO fill
tue vacancy.
P..I: The Washington Iron Works
has just completed new yariiue en-
gine for the Blanchard logging company
which will be sent to the SamIsh river in
/ "A day or 30. II Is intended to draw logs
from the woods after they are cut down
10 the main roadway where the cattle can
get at them ia good advantage. There
are several of these engines now IN use
on the sound and they are considered
great Improvement over the old style of
yarding cattle.
Chief Murphy Friday arrested
man as a desertGr, who enlisted in the
regular army undGr the name of Richard
| Koggis. He deserted from company {.
Fourteenth Battalion, stationed at Van
couver, and has since passed under the
name of Clifford. His case will be dealt
with today rs soon as Port Townsend,
where he is well known, can be heard
FROM Murphy has received several tele-
grams from the military authorities
about the man.-P.-L.
John II. McGraw, OF this city, leaves
to-day for the mining districts % South
ern Oregon, on business trip. Mr.. Nj.
:. Booth, formerly OF this city, who bo.
came a financial wreck on the collapse
of the boom OF 1883, is engaged in min
iHg III Southern Oregon, and is said to
be in fair way 60 regain some Of the
money he lost at the time mentioned
above. Had he been able to weather
the gale, and hold on 10 what he had,
he would now bo independently rich,
but he was carrying more than he could
swing when the crisis came, and had to
give way under the load. Seattle P.-I
Seattle Press: At meeting of the
stockholders of the Dry Dock company
last evening the following officers were
elected: Robert Moran. president; Al
exander Allen, vice president ani mana
ger; George Kelly, secretary; Charles
Mcdonald, treasurer; Bailey GatZsrt,
T. L. Minor, ID. L. Durie, n. l.. Rogers
and Peter Moran, trustees. Mr.. Moran
the president, stated that site had
been selected, aud that the work of con-
structing the dock would be commenced
at once. He further stated that the
; out all kinds Of vessels, from a small
schooner to large ship, by tho middle
Of next My, aud possibly sooner.
Portland Ncw5: The time Of the
NOrther Pacific trains running between
this city and Tacoma was changed last
Sunday. The Atlantic express Will
leave Portland at 3:30 i. IN, arrive at
Tacoma at 6:i5 Il. m., leaving fifteen min
utes later for the east. The Pacific cx
press will reach Tacoma 5:2G p, IN, leave
at 4:i5 p. m, and arrive III "rtiand 1t
1910 a. N. This IS the tain that now
leaves here at a m, and arrives at Go
p. m. The local train, which now leaves
here at IL a. N, will, after Sunday, leave
at Hos, and arrive al Tacoma nj 6;3G.
Leave Tacoma %, reach Portland 2:3O
This arrangement makes Tacoma, the
boasted city of destiny, only Il whistllTg
static. on the -reat trGuscout!nentai
railroad It claims 70 bo the terminus Of,
and Portland the actual terminus.
Pcrfp0EeHenE.
OIYMPIc LODGE. No. 81, +. of PIT
: is with regret that Wo have 10 announce
tie nnst nnnerneut Cf Tire Thanksgiving z